Small stock production in the southern rangelands of Ethiopia
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International Livestock Centre for Africa
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A study conducted at Beke station, Borana (Ethiopia), to assess the potential producitivity of indigenous sheep and goats under traditional Gabbra management conditions. Summarises monthly parturition and distribution of birth, birth weight, live weight, daily weight gain from birth to weaning, fertility & prolificacy, monthly mortality of kids & lambs, mortality by sex, age and cause and daily milk offtake.
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rangelands, traditional methods, sheep, goats, climate, parturition, birth weight, growth, fertility, reproductivity, mortality, milk composition, production systems